Originally Posted by
oldmako
Why? Specifically, why?
The AA pilots have nothing good to say about him and they had a long run with him in the front office. It humors me how so many are here are washing his feet based on his Q and As and smiling face on FT. I don't get it.
I respect you Brother it takes both sides of the argument to find the middle. Thank you for taking an EO, even if it was selfish, you saved a junior pilot. I know your career didn’t end the way you wanted but you went out doing a great thing.
as far as your question. I have seen Kirby speak several times his ego is MASSIVE. He wants to be a Howard huges or Juan Tripp. He wants the entire world to think United when they want to fly. His team has put more flying into our JV hubs. They fought LH to make the JV more fair. I remember when there was LH birds all over our hubs and we had a couple flights to FRA and one offs to MUC.
look at where he was deploying the 787s prior too Covid and even now. We have started routes all over the world to place UA and CAL never got close too.
I also believe he has handled this crisis better than any other airline. I believe him when he says he wants to crush everyone and runaway with the ball on the other side of this. We will see if he can.